[jimblais]

I replaced the phpBB converter code as above and when I run it, it finds nothing. It runs through but does not create forums nor topics, etc. Please advise.

[TiiuK]

Long story short this didn’t work either and I was wondering if the domain redirect is a problem (when you browse to the phpBB forums you get redirected to a subforum).

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you try using the following version:
• https://gist.github.com/pixelnated/5c27a64c450578440554ba902560178f

Via https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-for-phpbb3-to-bbpress-conversion-script/

[pixelnated]

No dice with bbPress 2.6-beta-2 either 🙁
No biggie – I’ll just rollback and get it done. I like where it is heading with all the additional info though

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘users.id’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(users.id USING “utf8mb4”) AS id,convert(users.password USING “utf8mb4”) AS password,convert(users.salt USING “utf8mb4”) AS salt,convert(users.username USING “utf8mb4”) AS username,convert(users.email USING “utf8mb4”) AS email,convert(users.www USING “utf8mb4”) AS www,convert(users.r_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS r_time,convert(users.aim USING “utf8mb4”) AS aim,convert(users.yim USING “utf8mb4”) AS yim,convert(users.icq USING “utf8mb4”) AS icq,convert(users.msn USING “utf8mb4”) AS msn,convert(users.gmail USING “utf8mb4”) AS gmail,convert(users.sig USING “utf8mb4”) AS sig,convert(users.location USING “utf8mb4”) AS location,convert(users.users_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS users_text FROM phpbb3_users AS users LIMIT 0, 250

No users to convert

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

[Stephen Edgar]

@pixelnated, if you use the version here it includes a bunch of other enhancements 🙂
• https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php

[pixelnated]

Since I was helping a friend convert a phpbb2 board to phpbb3 I thought I’d take the time to also import the forums into bbpress (my preference).
I initially tried the import but could not get it to work and after looking on the forums saw that I was not alone.
To get the import to work I had to remap some fields in the phpbb conversion script and comment out some obsolete ones (took about 30 minutes.

If anyone needs to get your PHPBB3 users and forums converted in BBPress you can replace the phpBB.php file in wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converters to match the following updated code: https://gist.github.com/pixelnated/a7a9c41154cf64696ddd1c2e4f4327ed

[Stephen Edgar]

@tiiuk did you select phpBB from the dropdown and enter the correct database prefix?

[TiiuK]

Thanks guys, I had the latest bbPress installed but my converter.php looked different so now I am using the converter.php file which Stephen posted and did not do any change to it. Then I tried the phpBB3 import again but know I am stuck at “Starting conversion” … it just won’t stop and there is no error message. How can I finally get this to work?

[Stephen Edgar]

@jwk, I’ve moved this to its own topic as this does NOT affect all of bbPress.

This will be specific to whatever import process of importer you are using.

What are you importing and where from @jkw217? phpBB? a raw database?

[matevoun]

Salutations,

Je viens de découvrir cette extension…
C’est TERRIBLE ! 😉

Moi qui comptait installer un phpBB… Problème résolu.

Par contre, j’ai 2/3 questions :
– Mon site WP est plus un site “carte de visite”, sans articles, juste des pages. Personne ne s’inscrit donc. Comment faire dans ce cas pour ouvrir en écriture le forum au public (sans être anonymes) ?
– Le thème du forum est lié au thème WP ou on peut le changer indépendamment ?
– Comment se passe les sauvegardes du forum ? (pérennité.)
– Comment l’intégrer au site WP ? Un lien menu ?

Merci de votre aide…

[lantaarntje]

The converter won’t start? I try to make a test conversion from phpbb3 3.2 but nothing happens when i click start 😮

[xatanael]

Hello,

I just want to import my phpBB forum (version 3.2.0) to BBpress. I tried with “tools/import” but it doesn’t work. The tools didn’t import a single forum or topic.

How can I do this?

Another question : how can I increase the size of the font in BBpress? I would have the same size as this forum, on wordpress.org. The original size is really too small.

Thanks a lot.

[vamshidhar]

I am trying to import data from phpBB 3.2.1 to bbPress 2.6 RC 3. I am working on my local machine.
It is converting Forums, Topics and Replies but Users are not getting imported. Author column is showing as Anonymous.

While importing below error is showing up

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_wlm’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING “utf8mb4”) AS username,convert(users.user_email USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_email,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_website USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_regdate,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_aol USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_aol,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_yahoo USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_yahoo,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_icq USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_icq,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_wlm USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_wlm,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_facebook USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_facebook,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_googleplus USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_googleplus,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_skype USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_skype,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_twitter USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_twitter,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_youtube USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_youtube,convert(users.user_jabber USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_jabber,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_occupation USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_occupation,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_interests USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_sig,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_location USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_location,convert(users.user_avatar USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_avatar FROM phpbb_users AS users LEFT JOIN phpbb_profile_fields_data AS profile_fields_data USING (user_id) WHERE users.user_type !=2 LIMIT 0, 100

[vamshidhar]

Thanks, John. RC 5 is not downloading, I have downloaded RC 3. I have tried it locally with phpBB3 and bbPress2.6. It has imported Forums, Topics and Replies but not Users. Is there any problem with importing Users?

[vamshidhar]

I have an old forum running on phpBB 2+ version. It has nearly 70000 users and 400000 artcles.
Now I need to migrate it to latest bbPress. In bbPress documentation I read that it support importing from phpBB 3.0+, So how can I achieve this migration?

[rick435]

https://cholangiocarcinoma.org/db

We’ve ditched our old punbb board and some of our users miss the ability to view just the posts that have been posted since their last visit. That “New Posts” link was actually one of our most popular pages.

Are there any plugins available that could do that? I’ve spent awhile looking and it seems like a popular request for those of us from punbb and phpbb.

[paladinbrewer]

Hello,

So I am new to wordpress and bbpress. For forum usage I am very used to phpbb3. I installed bbpress + buddypress because my wordpress theme supports it, but upon playing with it, it doesn’t feel like forums at all.

1) Why can’t I do a normal forum layout:

Category 1
Forum 1
Forum 1 description
Forum 2
Forum 2 description
Category 2
Etc

2) Where is the normal forum functionality? Signatures, Mark all as read, statistics, Who’s Online, etc

3) No usergroups or controls? How do I set private forums? Some forums I want people to read and reply, but not create new posts. I can’t do this?

4) It doesnt seem it even tells me which forum has new posts and which doesn’t? Maybe that’s a Theme issue?

So is bbpress actual forums or meant for something else? Or am I missing it all entirely?

[InTempest]

Archived old site: imapiece .com/connect1/
New wordpress site curently being developed: imapiece .com/
WP version: 4.8.1
BBPress Version: 2.5.13
(I broke the links and removed the https:// because the previous posts I made where all the links worked were never approved by mods and stayed in limbo, just take out the space before .com and they’ll work)

I am moving my current guild forums from PHPbb to buddypress/bbpress in wordpress.
There is one thing I can’t seem to find, and ive been looking around everywhere and it seems im not the only one looking.
bbpress .org/forums/topic/looking-for-an-application-plugin

Here is what im looking for, user registers and then applys for a specific group by going to a page with the php form and on submission the post is made in a specified forum.

So lets say there is a page with links to the groups pages and on each page is a application to join that group because the cosplayers have different questions than car guys or wow players. User fills out the app and when they submit it creates a new thread in that groups recruitment forum.

Here is the addon that I use with phpbb
phpbb .com/customise/db/extension/application_form

Here are some screenshots of it in its current use

Front end application

Then it creates a new post with New Application from %username

Then in the output view it has it in its own post

Has anyone seen ANYTHING from bbpress or buddy press that can do this? I have been looking and as mentioned I can’t find a solution anywhere. Closest I found was an option in gravity forms to send to trello or via email but that doesn’t make a new thread in a pre determined forum where community members can access and respond to it. I’m bootstrapping this myself if anyone knows a place that contracts this stuff out. I don’t have a lot of money, but the guild is dying and i dont know what else I can do.

Thank you for any information you may have available,
InTempest

[ersatzpole]

Hi,
I am trying to convert from phpBB but have come across a problem.
My reply subject and content is in a different table to the normal ‘posts’ table.
The standard code in the existing conversion file joins the topics table to the posts table like this:

// Setup reply section table joins
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'join_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'join_type'       => 'LEFT',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply'
		);

but I need to also join to the table with the subject and content, the ‘posts_text’ table.
Is this possible using the current conversion framework?
If so can anyone please help me with the syntax.

Many thanks

[willes]

Hi,

I’m trying to import a phpbb forum (3.0.12) to a new bbpress (2.5.13) installation.

Everything works well, except that I’d like that imported users that exist in the wordpress (4.8) installation are automatically linked to subjects, messages, etc…

As mention in this post, I could delete “imported_…” accounts and choose the existing users. But I have more than 1100 matches. One by one is just terrible…

I tried to modify the “bbpress/includes/admin/convert.php” file but with no success.

Is there any way “automate” this ?
Thank you.

[InTempest]

@Robin W

Ive looked at those too, and i guess my issue is im trying to have the comminuty and the front end of each niche seperate enough for each group to be self maintained, yet connected enough with the whole for larger stuff like for event planning.ect

I was using phpbb to handle the majority of this where I just iframed the root of a groups category on their page and had the rull root show up on the main site. but it was ugly and the application plugin stopped getting updates and leaving an out of date phpbb install is a bad idea, thus trying to find a solution in WP till I can make the custom site

@Stephen Edgar

Whats funny is I saw the episode of WP watercooler where she gets called out being pro MS because of this talk, but they didnt link it.

If I didnt need to have standalone pages I wouldnt be as worried, but its trying to find a way to create what I have designed that can show an alpha or at least beta concept before i try to find funding to get my full site/schema made since the last quote was in the 5 digit range to start.

[InTempest]

Reference site http://imapiece.com/

Ill start by saying im not a developer and can edit php and code, but I cant write it from scratch…. yet

So ive been moving a guild site over from phpbb into wordpress and am still trying to figure out the best way to handle applicants, I made a post here if anyone had any ideas about that
https://bbpress.org/?post_type=topic&p=181981

So I was looking into how to maybe do a multisite with a single forum handling all the main communication among the community as a whole. I was looking through the forum here and everything that said it cant be done is very old. Is there a way to have shortcodes and custom user fields to work around that? Or maybe iframe?

Here is my thought, ill use car clubs for example

Root Forum

1 category – Car Club –
1-2 forum – public
1-3 forum – recruitment needs

2 category – members only
2-2 forum – New Car Club Applicant
2-3 forum – Car Club Events
2-4 forum – ADMIN

3 categories – (3) Honda – (4) Ford – (5) Mazda
3-2 forum – news rss
3-3 forum – brand specific news

Ok, so lets say on the main site if someone goes there it pulls everything since its the root. But give the car club its own multisite along with any niche sub group. In the custom user groups have shortcodes associated with the different ranks to show them on their member page when they look at the info something like [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] and add more to the root of that ranks permission. That way you dont have to add them per user, but per rank per group.

so in the shortcode for public users they would only have access to 1 and its contents
people in the honda club who are just members would have access to 1, 2(excluding 2-4) and 3, once they get bumped up to admin rank in that group the shortcode to display 2-4 gets added since its connected to rank roles.

In the same breath on the front end of the multisite pages you could just have them display the public forums associated with that niche pulling the data from the forum via [bbp-single-forum id=$id ].

I had a ton of control like this through phpbb using theme styling and domain masking and am trying to find a way to make it work in wordpress but its been a learning curve. I know groups in buddypress have some of this function built in, but it doesn’t seem to be tweak-able between sites. I dont want a guest to see every group in the opt in part of registration off the bat. Would rather have them app on that groups page, members review then they get added and what they see is based on what rank they have in all the groups they are in.

So am i trying to overthink this? Have I missed something that could solve this idea?

Thoughts/Suggestions?

[scrawny]

I installed phpBB and it worked fine, but I wanted something like the Ad Inserter plugin I’m using on WP and couldn’t find anything suitable.

phpBB is a good forum program with lots of good extensions. I’m hoping bbPress will ‘soon’ be updated to function properly with php 7.0.19 and 7.1.

In the meantime I’ve got to post another question elsewhere on how to cleanup the mysql database and get rid of the 7 forums I created using bbPress earlier – all forums named the same because none of them ever appeared as a forum in the listings or appeared anywhere except as a listing on my sidebar- so when I do try bbPress again I won’t endup with a mess of forums all named the same.

[Robin W]

sorry thought you went with phpbb ?

[scrawny]

2.5.13 too late. Went with phpBB.